San Francisco Community Agencies Responding to Disaster (SF CARD)
Project
Coordinator:
Kristin Szafraniec, Director of Development
Area
of Service:
Disaster Preparedness
Agency
Description:
For more than 16 years, San Francisco Community Agencies Responding to Disaster (SF CARD), a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, has been a leader in providing emergency management programs and services, at no cost to the nonprofit sector and the faith-based community. SF CARD is one of the most respected and well-established intermediary agencies dedicated to organizational disaster resilience, and an essential link between the public sector first responders, and nonprofit and faith-based organizations in disaster response and recovery efforts.
SF CARD holds a unique, and vital position in the community and thereby serves as the local government focal point for information and resource coordination among nearly 100 nonprofit and faith-based organizations engaged in disaster work. SF CARD is the only disaster preparedness and response organization focused exclusively on nonprofit organizations. It serves as the coordinator and convener of nonprofit sector emergency management issues, leveraging expertise and services with the goal of building a disaster resilient community.
SF CARDâ??s highly trained staff consults with organizations to assist them with Continuity of Operations plans, identify and obtain emergency supplies, train their employees and volunteers in staff readiness and emergency management, drill and exercise, and connect them with the emergency response and recovery structure of their jurisdiction. SF CARDâ??s staff also deploys to both local and national emergencies.
